418 EEPOET UPON COTTON INSECTS. 



LOUISIANA. 



During March and April the prevailing wind is south and west, lasting sometimes a 

 week, strong enough and long enough to bring a moth from South America, I should 

 think. I have no record of the wind, but if the moths are brought here by the wind, 

 which I think they are, it is during the mouths of March, April, and May. [H. B. 

 Shaw, Concordia. 



In March from the south. [John A. Maryman, East Feliciana. 



MISSISSIPPI. 



In March we have south to southwest winds, met by counter condensing currents 

 from northeast to north and consequent heavy raius, especially during the latter part 

 of the month, clearing off with cool northwesterly winds. The average force of the 

 wind greater. [Dr. E. H. Anderson, Madison. 



March winds variable southwest and northwest with considerable force, oftener 

 northeast, and still of tener southeast and south ; sometimes very strong for several 

 successive days. [D. L. Phares, Wilkinson. 



Prevailing winds south, maximum velocity probably 15 miles per hour. [C. Welch, 

 Covington. 



South. [Kenneth Clark, Chickasaw. 



North. [C. F. Sherriod, Lowndes. 



East and southeast. [J. W. Burch, Jefferson. 



Southwest, northwest, and north : when from southeast the hardest. [ W. Spillmau. 

 Clarke. 



NORTH CAROLINA. 



Northwest. [ J. Evans, Cumberland. 

 Northeast. F. I. Smith, Halifax. 



SOUTH CAROLINA. 



South and southwest, often northeast and southeast. [James W. Grace, Colleton. 



From every direction. [Paul S. Felder, Orangeburgh. 



March, west, northwest, and north. [James C. Brown, Barnwell. 



TENNESSEE. 



North, northwest, and west, northwest predominating. [A. W. Hunt, M. D., Perry. 

 Mostly from northwest. [John McMillan, Decatur. 



TEXAS. 



Our east and southeast winds will as surely bring rain as the norther brings cold. 

 [P. S. Clarke, Waller. 



South to southeast 15 to 30 miles, with an occasional norther 30 to 40 and sometimes 

 CO miles. [W. Barnes, Cherokee. 



March, 1860, the wind blew sixteen days from the south and fifteen days from the 

 north; March, 1861, nineteen days from the south, the remainder west and north- 

 west. [ J. M. Glasco, Upshur. 



Northwest. [H. J. H. Brensing, Miller. 



South, south by east, and south by west. [O. H. P. Garrett, Washington. 



Changeable. [R. Wipprecht, Comal. 



From the south, sometimes more than the usual rate. [W. T. Hill, Walker. 



In the month of March northers are less frequent, east and south \% ind mostly prevail- 

 ing ; if a norther occurs, it is generally followed by frost. A sleet of several days' 

 duration occurred as late as the 15th of March, 1857. [J. H. Krancher, Austin. 



Generally from west. [C. B. Richardson, Rusk. 



South and east. [S. Harbert, Colorado. 



South, and blowing like blazes. [Natt. Holman, Fayette. 



March gives us about the same direction and force of wind as February, except from 

 the 10th to the 22d high winds, north and northwest. The latter part of tho month 

 gives high .brisk winds from south-southwest, -with sudden shifts to the northwest. 

 [J. W. Jackson, Titus. 



QUESTION 4 c. The direction and force of the wind in the month of April. 



ALABAMA. 



West and northwest. [J. C. Matthews, Dale. 



Variable and light. [C. M. Howard, Autauga. 



From west to northeast. [J. C. Brown, Wilcox. 



Southeast. [Knox, Minge, and Evans, Hale. 



Generally a steady cool breeze from the north. [M. W. Hand, Greene. 



